Russell Bentley

Russell "Texas" Bentley was an American communist who fought for the Donetsk People's Republic during the Donbass War.

Biography
Russell Bentley was born in the US state of Texas, and he became interested in communism at the age of twelve. Bentley would decide to join the Vostok Battalion of the Donetsk People's Republic in December 2014, believing that the new government of Ukraine was fascist, and that Russia was not an authoritarian state, but an ally of the Donbass rebels. Bentley would take part in fighting the Ukrainian Army on the front lines until June 2015, and he entered the information warfare branch of the armed forces of the DPR. Bentley released videos of himself in Donetsk, and he was also interviewed by Vice News on one occasion.